[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] Network defrag

Ben Warren biggerbadderben at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 11:50:15 CEST 2009


Allesandro,

Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> I finally fixed the defrag code, testing with NFS as well.
> Didn't take performance figures, tough, for lack of time.
>
> I wanted to do "config + environment" for the NFS case, like tftp, but
> didnt' do the second step out of laziness (also, the source file has
> long lines while I have 80 columns).
>
> For the record, I added the check on ip_src and ip_dst, but everything
> stopped working. So I reverted that instead of entering a long
> debugging session.
>
> The CONFIG_NET_MAXDEFRAG argument is the actual payload, so I add NFS
> overhead to that figure, which is expected to a beautiful 4096 or
> 8192.  I feel this is better than other options, as the person writing
> the config is not expected to know how much protocol overhead is
> there.
>
> Alessandro Rubini (4):
>   net: defragment IP packets
>   tftp: get the tftp block size from config file and from the
>     environment
>   nfs: accept CONFIG_NFS_READ_SIZE from config file
>   arm nomadik: activate defrag choose 4k transfer block size
>
>  include/configs/nhk8815.h |    4 +
>  net/net.c                 |  188 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  net/nfs.h                 |   10 ++-
>  net/tftp.c                |   13 +++-
>  4 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>   
patches 1-4 applied to net/next.

thanks!
Ben


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